[Maven-plugins-user] how to generate well formated output?

[wolfgang h. <no....@ha...>]

Greetings,

I'm writing a plugin which, amongst other things, shall map
Maven properties into a "Java"-style property file.

For example:

<project>
  ..
  <artifactId>hello-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  ..
</project>

shall be mapped into

# project's artifact name
project.artifact = hello-maven-plugin


Now I'm a bit stuck since I can't tell my Jelly scripts to put
the "newline" character where I want to have it.

For example,

<j:jelly
  xmlns:j="jelly:core"
  xmlns:x="jelly:xml"
>
# project name
project.name = ${pom.artifactId}
</j:jelly>


just produces ..

# project name project.name = ${pom.artifactId}

A kind of workaround would be to put artificial 'newline chars'
into the output stream and replace them in a second run by '\n'.

However,  is  there a better way to generate a non-XML document
in Jelly?

Cheers,
Wolfgang.